I do all my programming on Linux, but haven't used KDE, yet. I finally got around to installing it. wow!!!!. If I didn't have $5000 invested in Adobe and Macromedia software, I'd say bye bye to NT for good. screw it. So, quick question. What is the best mouse driver out there? Does the default one allow configuring buttons. And is there an equivalent of Control Panel in KDE2? excuse the laziness to not check . . . I want to install the top pick the first time, if you know what I mean. thx
I've only used KDE a couple of times but if I am not mistaken you can configure the mouse to your liking. I mostly use RH and it seems the closest to a control panel is /dev maybe.
Not sure exactly what you want to do with the mouse buttons, but try clicking on the KDE control center. Or type "kcontrol" from the command line, and look under "Look and Feel" or something like that. I'm running it on my laptop, it's pretty good. If KOffice dealt with Word and PowerPoint files well, I'd stop using Windows for productivity stuff all together.
What are you trying to do with your mouse? Right-click, left-click, both buttons down as third button... What else is there?
You can edit all things like, monitor refresh rate, keyboard, and mice settings for the GUI under the config file, called XF86Config. The path for my version of linux is /etc/X11/XF86Config. If you manage to get the scroll wheel button to work, please let me know. Here's the XF86Config file with the portion for my mouse: # ********************************************************************** # Core Pointer's InputDevice section # ********************************************************************** Section "InputDevice" # Identifier and driver Identifier "Mouse1" Driver "mouse" # The available mouse protocols types that you can set below are: # Auto BusMouse GlidePoint GlidePointPS/2 IntelliMouse IMPS/2 # Logitech Microsoft MMHitTab MMSeries Mouseman MouseManPlusPS/2 # MouseSystems NetMousePS/2 NetScrollPS/2 OSMouse PS/2 SysMouse # ThinkingMouse ThinkingMousePS/2 Xqueue Option "Protocol" "PS/2" Option "Device" "/dev/mouse" # Option "Device" "/dev/psaux" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS1"
I used to edit the XF86Config files, but I just installed RedHat 7.2 (stupid Win98SE screwed up a driver, and told me to reinstall Win98, but I don't have a CD-ROM drive in my laptop). Surprisingly, RedHat is much easier for me to install than Windows, since I had to install over a network. Much simpler to configure nowadays, too. For my USB mouse with a scroll wheel, I just picked a logitech version (I have a cheap Belkin), and it worked just fine. I used "mouseconfig" - a lot quicker than editing XF86 files. I haven't messed with assigning buttons functions.
